Job 3:4
That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 10:22-23 : 22 So Moses extended his hand toward heaven, and there was absolute darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see another person, and no one could rise from his place for three days. But the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
- Deut 11:12 : 12 a land the LORD your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.
- Joel 2:2 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
- Amos 5:18 : 18 The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.
- Matt 27:45 : 45 Jesus’ Death Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.
- Acts 27:20 : 20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent storm continued to batter us, we finally abandoned all hope of being saved.
- Rev 16:10 : 10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.
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- Job 3:5-106 verses89%
5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
7Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
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3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
- Job 18:5-62 verses76%
5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
- Job 10:20-223 verses75%
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
- Job 17:12-132 verses74%
12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
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22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses73%
11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
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3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
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15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
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18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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20Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.
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32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.
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12May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!
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8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
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6On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.
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6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.
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16May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.
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3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
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4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
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18The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.
- Job 24:16-172 verses72%
16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
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9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
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8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.
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3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.